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Hillary Clinton will take only so much guff

The Republicans see Benghazi as a political opportunity, a way to swift-boat Clinton and lacerate her up as much as possible before 2016.

On Jan. 23, Clinton appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a tea party darling, wanted to talk about the talking points.

“We were misled that there were supposedly protests and that something sprang out of that — an assault sprang out of that,” Johnson said, “and that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact, and the American people could have known that within days and they didn’t know that.”

Clinton, a former senator and now a former secretary of state, knows how to put up with guff. But she figured the American people had put up with enough guff when it came to Benghazi…

If Hillary Clinton runs for president in 2016, everything she did or did not do during her career will be fair game, including sideshows, circuses, and whether there is anything there there.

But is that what she really wants? Or is she just a little tired of the whole sad game? As I said; I am currently agnostic on the matter. And I think she is, too.

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Of course she is going to run. The Clinton War Room is on overtime facilitating the churning and burning of the scandals THAT ARE NOT BENGHAZI so all the blame game can be deflected towards that lousy, inept, juvenile, untested, articulate, clean, blah blah dolt currently acting as placeholder for her rightful spot in the White House.

Of course she will run. She has nothing else. She can’t go quietly into her sunset. She is a control freak and a publicity ho. Her marriage situation does not lend itself to lazy retirement afternoons taking walks, drinking cocoa and playing scrabble. Doubtful that she has any hobbies. Does she even have friends? She is certainly not the warm nurturing grandmotherly type, so that’s out. Who would want or tolerate her in any volunteer or community organization? What a dismal way to grow old. She has nothing else.

No, political ambition runs deep in Hillary Clinton, starting from her high school or college days. She will be calculating her political future as long as she’s able to run. Count on it. She will tire of living before she tires of getting political power.

There are very good reasons not to trust Politico, and Roger Simon provides several more in this brief piece.

1) He is still unable to understand why the talking points matter;

2) He does not understand that were people like him not complicit in accepting the State Department-revised talking points, were the likes of Candy Crowley not actively spreading the nonsense of this WH administration, the American people might understand why they should care.

3) But his main worry seems to be what he sees as setting the record straight on a perceived McCain “sexist smear” of HRC — his worry is that the HRC didn’t say “who cares,” she said “what difference does it make?”

I’ll leave it to the likes of accomplices like Simon to parse the difference, but here’s what HRC said immediately after, namely what difference does it make whether it was a spontaneous demonstration or some guys “out for a walk that night” who decide to go kill some Americans.

Simon should be much more worried that when she said that she knew neither of those options was true; she knew that the threat had been there for months; she knew that requests for greater security had been denied; and presumably she knows why the ambassador was there that tragic night.

And this is why the talking points being “scrubbed” matters: They were trying to cover up the facts, and they still are.

But Roger Simon is too worried about whether he’s a “nonbeliever” or an “agnostic” about HRC running in 2016 to tie such subtleties together.

Being fat, old, drunk, brain damaged, having been a complete disaster as S.O.S., and being a well documented TRAITOR with the blood of (at least) four Americans on her hands, will make it very difficult for Killary to run an effective campaign.

You know Hillary’s patience has met its limit when potential witnesses against her are found whacked, Clintoon ex-friends start hurtling their cars off cliffs in rural Arkansas and the Ft. Marcy Park Police get called in to er, handle, dubious “suicides” or Janet Reno starts setting fire to large groups of people.

Being fat, old, drunk, brain damaged, having been a complete disaster as S.O.S., and being a well documented TRAITOR with the blood of (at least) four Americans on her hands, will make it very difficult for Killary to run an effective campaign.

Pork-Chop on May 14, 2013 at 10:26 PM

lol, my brother, that would be true if we lived in a sane world. Can’t wait to see which ass kicker our side puts up in 2016.

You know Hillary’s patience has met its limit when potential witnesses against her are found whacked, Clintoon ex-friends start hurtling their cars off cliffs in rural Arkansas and the Ft. Marcy Park Police get called in to er, handle, dubious “suicides” or Janet Reno starts setting fire to large groups of people.

You know they’re losing it in Leftworld when they have to resort to archaic confabulations like “guff“.

profitsbeard on May 15, 2013 at 12:35 AM

He didn’t have a whole lot of choice. When Hillary Clinton is bouncing up and down in her chair and waving her arms — and screeching — before a Congressional Committee, the only way to try to spin it is to claim that she just had all the “guff” she could take.

Every time I see that video, I notice that she says, “What difference does it make whether it was a spontaneous demonstration” or people who just decided to kill some Americans. And I find myself thinking, “As if you didn’t know good and well it was neither.”

The “video protest” was such an absurd story that my jaw dropped the first time I heard it. Which just so happened to be the same reaction from John McCain and Hicks, the Mission Chief at Benghazi.

I guess Hillary is just getting too old to put in the effort to come up with a good lie these days.